Tuesday, January 3rd 2012


Did You Know 2.0



Did You Know 4.0




Wednesday, January 4th 2012

Remembering yesterday's videos-whats the message-what do we do with it?

Everyone joins the wiki! If you have a wikispace account from another class, just search for this class and press join this wiki

The power of technology to change lives, the world, and education!
In pairs, read the following comments by Don Tapscott-each pair should choose 3 comments they want to argue with, agree with, or discuss further with the class.
Don Tapscott on 2012
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Student Commentary

Monday, January 9th 2012

*Remember where we began...Don Tapscott's predictions and your commentary

As a class we will review Tapscott's 20 predictions for 2012 and then discuss group analysis of those predictions.

Tuesday, January 10th and Wednesday, January 11th 2012

Watch Us Now
And fill out the organizer related to: How can the Internet can change our lives for the better?

Thursday, January 12th 2012

Shadowing day!

Friday, January 13th 2012



From our viewing of US Now and discussions in class we recognize the capacity of the Internet. Infographics is a new trend in information sharing and an example of how the Internet is changing the way we think.

Each student will be assigned one of the infographics below. You will read through and analyze and then share to the class what you have learned and answer the following questions below.

Read aloud and think aloud what the text is saying (through words, images, and other graphic features)
Analyze, Synthesize, Summarize, and Share what you've learned from your infographic with the whole class-for Tuesday!
Be sure to answer all of these questions that apply . . .
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? and So What?

  1. How the Internet Works
  2. History of the Internet
  3. The Internet!
  4. Web Trend Map 4 (Here is a blog post about the map from its developers)
  5. Internet in 2020
  6. Internet Statistics
  7. State of the Internet
  8. A Day in the Internet
  9. How different age groups are using the Internet
  10. Who Participates and What People are Doing
  11. Exploring the Exploding Internet
  12. How the World Spends its Time Online
  13. 10 Years of Wikipedia
  14. Internet Speeds and Costs Around the World

Tuesday, January 17th 2012

Finish our look at Infographics. Students present and describe their infographics.

Question: What's the big picture message? And how do you feel about Infographics?

What is it like to be a student today? What do you wish school was like?




Wednesday, Jan. 18th 2012









Each student compiles and describes their vision of school
What is your typical day at school look like?
Your Vision of School-What do you see, what do you do?
Consider Activity by Activity, or class by class, NOT what the teacher is doing but what you are doing
What are you ACTUALLY Doing, Thinking About, Working On?
What is most of your time spent doing, creating, focused on?


Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Now that we have our own vision of school lets discuss what our video SHOULD include...what would we "secretly" want our teachers and administrators to know. What things are working well...lets make sure to include those in our video represenation.

Collective Brainstorming-including content and what will our video looklike (shots, locations, stars)

Friday, January 20th 2012

Students will film their VISON of SCHOOL using Flip cameras-hopefully compiling all their footage and having someone (maybe Lil Zak) take it home and cut into a film.